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CHAMBERS'S JOURNAL
OF
POPULAR LITERATURE
Science and Arts

1877

W. & R. CHAMBERS

LONDON & EDINBURGH

Edinburgh:
Printed by W. and R. Chambers.

[Transcriber's Note: This cross reference of issue number to page number was provided by the transcriber.

End of Transcriber Note.]

[INDEX.]

Familiar Sketches and Essays.

Page

• Air and Water Pollution (W. C.), [513]
• Boarding-out System (W. C.), [353]
• Charley Ross (W. C.), [305]
• Christmas-time, [801]
• Cornish Haven, a, [449]
• Costers and their Donkeys (W. C.), [753]
• Derelicts, [97]
• Experiences of a Knocker-up, [721]
• Fairbairns, Story of the (W. C.), [417]
• Female Professionals (W. C.), [65]
• Gaelic Nuisance, the (W. C.), [689]
• Good Manners, [390]
• High-mettled Racer, the (W. C.), [209]
• Holiday in the Lake Country, [369]
• Hygeia: a Model City of Health, [33]
• Kingsley (Charles) at Home, [497]
• Live to a Hundred, To (W. C.), [113]
• 'Lives o' Men,' [193]
• Ludicrous, the, [287]
• 'Making Pretend,' [257]
• Marvel of Artistic Genius, [241]
• Names (W. C.), [177]
• Peter Botte (or Pieter Both), [465]
• Predominant Delusions (W. C.), [481]
• Rabbits, About (W. C.), [145]
• Rich Folks, a Word on, [625]
• Rob Graham: a Tweedside Reminiscence (W. C.), [129]
• Romance of Accident, [817]
• Royal Game of Golf, [705]
• Seventy Years Since, [385]
• Sir Walter Scott and his Dogs (W. C.), [273]
• St Kilda, Life in, [284], [312], [331]
• Strange Family History, [529]
• Sunny Days on the Thames, [321]
• Thrift and Unthrift (W. C.), [641]
• Treatment of Animals (W. C.), [545]
• 'Village Home,' a, [433]
• Vital Force, [293]
• Wasted Existence (W. C.), [17]
• Waste of Life, [173]
• Window Willie (W. C.), [337]
• Wooden Leg, the (W. C.), [81]

Poetry.

• Autumn in the Woods, [608]
• City Weed, a, [448]
• Coming Flowers, To the, [144]
• Deserted Garden, the, [624]
• Desolate, [800]
• Duffers Yet.—By Two 'Long Spoons,' [707]
• 'Ever Believe Me Affectionately Yours,' [400]
• Fairies, the, [384]
• Fall of the Year, the, [640]
• Language of Flowers, the, [416]
• Leaf Prophetic, the, [32]
• Lenachluten, a Waterfall in Argyleshire, [368]
• Let Bygones be Bygones, [816]
• Monument and Turf, [736]
• Mountain Lamb, Lines to a Late-born, [64]
• My Baby, [496]
• My Sweetheart, [576]
• Pet Dove Killed by a Dog, On a, [432]
• Reinterment of John Hunter, [96]
• Robin Redbreast, To My, [752]
• Rocky Boulders of Cornwall, [160]
• Roll-call of Home, the, [832]
• Sisters, [288]
• Song of the Carilloneur, [48]
• —— —— —— Irwell, [515]
• Sonnet, [224]
• Sunset, [592]
• Spring Showers, [256]
• Sweet Love and I, [656]
• Thomas Tyrie, Lines to the Memory of, [192]
• Tomb and the Rose, the, [240]
• Walmer Life-boat, the, [464]

Popular Science.

• 'Bell-animalcules,' [190]
• Changes of Colour in the Chameleon, [575]
• Colour-blindness, [152]
• Electricity as a Light-producer, [667]
• Errors concerning Animals and Plants, [110]
• Fossil Men, [200]
• French Notes, [607]
• Froth, [447]
• Germ Theory Again, [717]
• Odd Fishes, [78]
• Photographic Progress, [134]
• Porcelain-painting, [169]
• Prism, the, [341]
• Science and Arts—[62], [126], [206], [269], [334], [413], [477], [542], [621], [685], [748], [829]
• Sea-eggs, [325]
• Telegraph, Singing and Talking by, [554]
• Telegraphy and War, [737]
• Telephone, the, [811]
• Voice, Curiosities of the, [471]

Tales and Other Narratives.

• Admiral's Second Wife, the—

• Archie Raeburn, [47]
• Bunch of Keys, a, [785]
• Cast of the Net: the Story of a Detective Officer, [756], [775], [789], [803]
• Cousin Dick, [424]
• Cross-purposes, [441], [457]
• Curate's Holiday, a, [11], [28], [43], [58]
• Dawn to Sunset—[548], [563], [579], [595], [611], [627], [643], [659], [675], [691], [708]
• Diamond cut Diamond, [600]
• Difficult Question, a, [808], [819]
• Dream and its Consequences, a, [821]
• Duke's Piper: a Story of the West Highlands, [376], [392], [410]
• Faithful unto Death, [401]
• Fanchette, the Goat of Boulainvilliers, [365]
• Gold-mine Experiences, [154]
• Gordon, [793]
• Hidden Box, the, [769]
• Inn at Bolton, the, [745]
• Irish Mistake, an, [237]

• Last of the Haddons, the. By Mrs Newman, Author of Too Late, &c.

• Legend of 'The Forty-five,' [683]
• Major Hammond's Ring, [617]
• Masonic Incident, [524]
• Minding the Bairn, [222]
• Mrs Petre, [104], [123]

• Nearly Wrecked—

• Queer Clue, a, [488], [504]
• Ready-money, [75]
• Rob Graham: a Tweedside Reminiscence (W. C.), [129]
• Romance of a Lodging, [344], [359]
• Shamrock Leaves—
• A Wedding, [654]
• A Wake, [671]
• 'Softie's' Dream, the, [761]
• Strong-minded Woman, the, [170], [185]
• Such Old Friends, [202]

• Sunshine and Cloud.—In Two Parts.

• Tim Baylis, [585]
• Tim Hargaton's Courtship, [568]

• Twelfth Rig, the—

Notices of Books.

• Aitken's (Dr) Science and Practice of Medicine, [396]
• Arnold's Summer Holiday in Scandinavia, [631]
• A Thousand Miles up the Nile, by Miss Edwards, [485]
• Baldwin's (Captain) Large and Small Game of Bengal, [230]
• Baron de Hübner's Ramble Round the World, [122]
• Burton's Helen's Babies, [556]
• —— Other People's Children, [556]
• Cameron's (Commander, R.N.) Across Africa, [214]
• Carpenter's (Dr W. B.) Mesmerism and Spiritualism, [481]
• Charley Ross: the Story of his Abduction, by C. K. Ross (W. C.), [305]
• Claretie's Camille Desmoulins and his Wife, translated by Mrs Cashel Hoey (W. C.), [17]
• Clark's Golf—a Royal and Ancient Game, [705]
• Dampier's (Rev. W. J.) Memoir of Carter, [241]
• Davies' Swan and her Crew, [157]
• Hamerton's Round my House; Notes on Rural Life in France, [8]
• Human Nature, by David Mitchell, [102]
• Hygeia (City of Health), by Dr Richardson, [33]
• Jones' Finger Ring Lore, [319]
• Kingsley's (Rev. Charles) Biography, [497]
• Lakes in Sunshine, the, by J. Payn, [369]
• Lord and Baines' Shifts and Expedients of Camp Life, Travel, and Exploration, [362]
• Mandl's (Dr) Larynx, [471]
• Margary's Journey from Shanghae to Bhamo, [40]
• Payer's New Lands within the Arctic Circle, [55]
• Rimmer's Ancient Streets and Homesteads of England, [780]
• Saxby's (Mrs) Rockbound, a Story of the Shetland Isles, [746]
• Schuyler's Journey in Turkestan, [72]
• Smiles' Huguenots (W. C.), [177]
• —— Life of a Scotch Naturalist—Thomas Edward (W. C.), [49]
• Squier's Land of the Incas, [787]
• Streeter's Precious Stones and Gems, [742]
• Symondson's Two Years Abaft the Mast, [520]
• Timbs' Anecdote Lives of the later Wits and Humorists, [6]
• Timbs' English Eccentrics and Eccentricities, [535]
• Trade-mark Journal, [491]
• Wallace's Russia, [374]
• Warren's (Captain), Underground Jerusalem, [182]

Miscellaneous Articles of Instruction and Entertainment.

• About Rabbits (W. C.), [145]
• Advertisements, Deceptive, [70]
• Advice to Young Women, [192]
• Affection in Bird-life, [268], [368]
• Africa, a Walk Across, [214]
• After-dinner Anecdotes, [91]
• Air Pollution (W. C.), [513]
• Amazonia, a Visit to, [501]
• American Bench, Drolleries of the, [382]
• Ancient Streets and Homesteads of England, [780]
• Animals and Plants, Errors concerning, [110]
• Archie Raeburn, [47]
• Arctic Regions, Christmas in the, [734]
• Arrows, Poisoned, [220]
• Artificial Eyes, the Trade in, [704]
• Artistic Genius, a Marvel of, [241]
• Austrian Arctic Discovery, [55]
• Banffshire Naturalist, the (W. C.), [49]
• Beche-de-Mer, the, [15]
• Bee-keepers, Hints to, [301]
• 'Bell-animalcules,' [190]
• Big Trees of Mariposa, the, [122]
• Bird-life, Affection in, [268], [368]
• Boarding-out System (W. C.), [353]
• Breithorn, a Lady's Ascent of the, [533]
• Bridge Pool, the, [589]
• Brigade of Foot Guards, the, [23]
• Brigandage, Italian (W. C.)—[4], [46], [336], [727]
• British Angler on the Continent, [404]
• —— Navy, as it Was, [161]
• 'Broads,' Cruising on the, [157]
• Bunch of Keys, a, [785]
• Burial Eccentricities, [593]
• Buried City, a, [766]
• Cables, Submarine, [281], [357], [454]
• Canine Attachment, a Local Instance of, [736]
• Carrier-pigeons, [672]
• Cast of the Net, [756], [775], [789], [803]
• Caterpillars, Processionary, [240]
• Cats, [128]
• Change-ringing, [731]
• Changes of Colour in the Chameleon, [575]
• Charley Ross (W. C.), [305]
• Children's Troubles, [13]
• China, Notes from, [445]
• Christmas in the Arctic Regions, [734]
• Christmas-time, [801]
• Cleopatra's Needle, [225]
• Clerks, [570]
• Cod-fishing in Iceland, [662]
• Coincidences, Some Curious, [510]
• Colonisation, Polar, [461]
• Colour-blindness, [152]
• Commercial Travellers' Schools, [144]
• Cornish Haven, a, [449]
• Costers and their Donkeys (W. C.), [753]
• Cousin Dick, [424]
• Cricket, the Morale of, [298]
• Crime in Italy, [46]
• Crocodile and Gavial, the, [653]
• Cross-purposes, [441], [457]
• Cruising on the 'Broads,' [157]
• Curate's Holiday, a, [11], [28], [43], [58]
• Curiosities of the Railway-ticket Manufacture, [140]
• Curiosities of the Voice, [471]
• Curious Pick-ups, [429]
• —— Picture Book, a, [491]
• Deceptive Advertisements, [70]
• Delusions, Predominant (W. C.), [481]
• Derelicts, [97]
• Diamond Cut Diamond, [600]
• Dickens' (Charles) Manuscripts, [710]
• Difficult Question, a, [808], [819]
• Donkeys and their Costers (W. C.), [753]
• Dream and its Consequences, a, [821]
• Drolleries of the American Bench, [382]
• Duke's Piper, the, [376], [392], [410]
• Earning a Livelihood, Unsuspected Ways of, [446]
• Eccentric People, [535]
• Editorial Note, [16]
• Electricity as a Light-producer, [667]
• Emergencies, [703]
• Emigrants, a Promising Field for, [399]
• England's Ancient Streets and Homesteads, [780]
• Errors concerning Animals and Plants, [110]
• Experiences of a Knocker-up, [721]
• Extraordinary Project, an, [792]
• Fairbairns, Story of the (W. C.), [417]
• Faithful unto Death, [401]
• Famous British Regiments, the Brigade of Foot Guards, [23]
• Fanchette, the Goat of Boulainvilliers, [365]
• Fans, Japanese, [783]
• Fearful Swing, a, [751]
• Feats of Endurance, [806]
• Female Professionals (W. C.), [65]
• Few Words about Poultry, [462]
• Fighting for Life, [526]
• Fijian Tragedy, a, [480]
• Fires and their Causes, [772]
• Fishing Extraordinary, [141]
• Foreigners' English, [561]
• Fossil Men, [200]
• Fox-hunting on the Mountains of Scotland, [473]
• France, Rural Life in, [8]
• French Fisher-folk, [701]
• —— Notes, a Few, [607]
• Froth, [447]
• Gaelic Nuisance, the (W. C.), [689]
• Gavial and Crocodile, the, [653]
• Gems at Random Strung, [742]
• Germ Theory Again, [717]
• Gigantic Moa Bird, [587]
• Glimpse of the Indian Famine (W. C.), [764]
• Gold-mine Experiences, [154]
• Golf, the Royal Game of, [705]
• Good Manners, [390]
• —— Templars, the, [167]
• Gordon, [793]
• Gossip about Tails, [351]
• Green Flag of the Prophet, [609]
• Grist-tax, the Italian, [655]
• Guacho, the, [715]
• 'Helen's Babies,' [556]
• Hidden Box, the, [769]
• High-mettled Racer, the (W. C.), [209]
• Hindu Fellow-subjects and Ourselves, [88]
• Hints to Bee-keepers, [301]
• —— —— Sick-nurses, [396]
• Holiday in the Lake-country, [369]
• Homesteads of England, [780]
• Hotel Hospitals, [599]
• Hyderabad and its Rulers, [518]
• Hygeia: a Model City of Health, [33]
• Iceland, Cod-fishing in, [662]
• Imported Beef and Mutton, [253]
• Incas, Land of the, [787]
• Incubation, Snake, [538]
• India, Tea-culture in, [559]
• Indian Border Warfare, [590]
• —— Famine, Glimpse of the (W. C.), [764]
• Indian Military Sports, [398]
• —— Pets, Our, [694]
• Inn at Bolton, the, [745]
• Irish Mistake, an, [237]
• Iron-clads, Our, [759]
• Is the Telephone a Practical Success? [811]
• Italian Brigandage (W. C.), [4]
• —— Grist-tax, the, [655]
• —— Vagrant Children, [614]
• Japan, a Railway Trip in, [26]
• ——, Mushroom Cultivation in, [512]
• Japanese Fans, [783]
• —— Wrestlers, [669]
• Jerusalem, Underground, [182]
• Journey in Turkestan, [72]
• Jungle and its Inhabitants, the, [230]
• Keepsake, a Restored, [95]
• Kingsley (Rev. Charles) at Home, [497]
• Knocker-up, Experiences of a, [721]
• Lady's Ascent of the Breithorn, a, [533]
• —— Journey in Moldavia, [573]
• Lake-country, a Holiday in the, [369]
• —— Nyassa, a Trip on, [428]
• Lamp-forge, the Quichenot, [112]
• Lampreys, [409]
• Land of the Incas, [787]
• —— —— —— Pharaohs, [485]
• Legend of 'The Forty-five,' [683]
• Life in a Military Prison, [798]
• —— —— St Kilda, [284], [312], [331]
• Lime-juice, [188], [367]
• Lion Kings, Queens, and Trainers, [174]
• Live to a Hundred, To (W. C.), [113]
• 'Lives o' Men,' [193]
• Lost in Magellan's Straits, [620]
• Ludicrous, the, [287]
• Mafia and Camorra (W. C.), [727]
• Major Hammond's Ring, [617]
• 'Making Pretend,' [257]
• Man on Man, [102]
• Manuscripts of Charles Dickens, [710]
• Margary's Journey from Shanghae to Bhamo, [40]
• Mariposa, the Big Trees of, [122]
• Market-garden Women, [646]
• Marvel of Artistic Genius, [241]
• Masonic Incident, a, [524]
• Medium's Correspondents, a, [236]
• Memory, [349]
• Military Sports, Indian, [398]
• Minding the Bairn, [222]
• Missing Articles, More, [272]
• Mistakes and Misconceptions, Odd, [605]
• Mistletoe, the, [735]
• Moa Bird, the Gigantic, [587]
• Model City of Health (Hygeia), [33]
• Modern Superstitions, [603]
• Moldavia, a Lady's Journey in, [573]
• Mongoose, the, [508]
• Month, The: Science and Arts—[62], [126], [206], [269], [334], [413], [477], [542], [621], [685], [748], [829]
• Morale of Cricket, the, [298]
• Morning in a London Hospital, [195]
• Mother Goose, [320]
• Mount Pisgah, London, W., [255]
• Mrs Petre, [104], [123]
• Mushroom Cultivation in Japan, [512]
• Mystical Plants, [347]
• Names (W. C.), [177]
• Narcotism, [797]
• New Zealand, Rabbits in, [205]
• Noble Occupation, a, [704]
• Norway, a Summer Holiday in, [631]
• Notes from China, [445]
• Obelisk, the Coming, [225]
• Ocean-voyages in Small Boats, [719]
• Odd Fishes, On Some, [78]
• Odd Mistakes and Misconceptions, [605]
• Odd Notes from Queensland, [824]
• Old Friends, Such, [202]
• Old Showman's Recollections, [94]
• 'One Shilling,' [120]
• 'Only Trifles,' [523]
• Ostriches, Capturing, [224]
• 'Other People's Children,' [556]
• Our Indian Pets, [694]
• Our Iron-clads, [759]
• Ourselves and our Hindu Fellow-subjects, [88]
• Partridge and Her Chicks, Story of a, [640]
• Peter Botte (or Pieter Both), [465]
• Pets, Some Uncommon, [31]
• Pharaohs, Land of the, [485]
• Photographic Progress, [134]
• Pick-ups, Curious, [429]
• Picture Book, a Curious, [491]
• Pixies, the, [784]
• Plants, Errors concerning, [110]
• ——, Mystical, [347]
• Playtime at Oxford, [540]
• Poisoned Arrows, [220]
• Polar Colonisation, [461]
• Poppet's Pranks, [494]
• Porcelain-painting, [169]
• Post-letter Items, [107]
• Poultry, a Few Words About, [462]
• Predominant Delusions (W. C.), [481]
• 'Prentice-life at Sea, [520]
• Prism, Story of the, [341]
• Processionary Caterpillars, [240]
• Prodigies, Youthful, [577]
• Project, an Extraordinary, [792]
• Promising Field for Emigrants, [399]
• Quack Medicine, [528]
• Quebec, Reminiscences of, [699]
• Queensland, Odd Notes from, [824]
• Queer Clue, a, [488], [504]
• Quichenot Lamp-forge, [112]
• Quigrich or Staff of St Fillan, Story of the, [422]
• Rabbits, About (W. C.), [145]
• —— in New Zealand, [205]
• Railway Accidents, [379]
• Railway-ticket Manufacture, Curiosities of, [140]
• Railway Trip in Japan, [26]
• Railways, Three Wonderful, [246]
• Ready-money, [75]
• Relic of Antiquity, [143]
• Reminiscences of Quebec, [699]
• Restored Keepsake, [95]
• Rich Folks, a Word on, [625]
• Ring Lore, [319]
• Rob Graham (W. C.), [129]
• Rockbound, [746]
• Romance of a Lodging, [344], [359]
• —— —— Accident, the, [817]
• Roughing It, [362]
• Round the World, Voyaging and Studying, [304]
• Royal Game of Golf, the, [705]
• —— Naval Reserve and Royal Naval Volunteers, [566]
• Rural Life in France, [8]
• Russia and her People, [374]
• Rusty Iron, [432]
• Schools, the Commercial Travellers', [144]
• Scotland, Fox-hunting on the Mountains of, [473]
• Sea-eggs, [325]
• Sea-lions, [778]
• Sea-monsters, [673]
• Sea-shore Rambles, [262]
• Sea-spoil, [648]
• Seventy Years Since, [385]
• Shamrock Leaves, [654], [671]
• Shanghae to Bhamo, Margary's Journey from, [40]
• Showman's Recollections, an Old, [94]
• Sicilian Brigandage (W. C.), [336]
• Sick-nurses, Hints to, [396]
• Siege of Paris, Episode of the, [365]
• Singing and Talking by Telegraph, [554]
• Singing Mice, [814]
• Sketches in Vancouver Island, [680]
• Smuggling in its Droll Aspects, [476]
• Snake-incubation, [538]
• 'Softie's' Dream, the, [761]
• Solan Goose, the, [416]
• Some Curious Coincidences, [510]
• Spread of Disease, [560]
• St Kilda, Life in, [284], [312], [331]
• Staff of St Fillan, the Story of the Quigrich or, [422]
• Story of a Partridge and Her Chicks, [640]
• Story of the Fairbairns (W. C.), [417]
• —— —— —— Prism, [341]
• —— —— —— West Highlands—[376], [392], [410]
• Strange Family History, [529]
• —— Pair, a, [688]
• Strong-minded Woman, the, [170], [185]
• Studying Round the World, [304]
• Submarine Cables—
• Their Manufacture, [281]
• Laying, [357]
• Working, [454]
• Summer Holiday in Norway, [631]
• Sunny Days on the Thames, [321]
• Sunshine and Cloud—[217], [233], [249], [265]
• Tails, Gossip About, [351]
• Taking it Coolly, [826]
• Tea-culture in India, [559]
• Telegraph, Singing and Talking by, [554]
• Telegraphy and War, [737]
• Telephone, Is it a Practical Success? [811]
• Templars, the Good, [167]
• Thrift and Unthrift (W. C.), [641]
• Tim Baylis, [585]
• Tim Hargaton's Courtship, [568]
• Tit for Tat, [638]
• Torpedoes and Infernal Machines, [438]
• Toy-land, [60]
• Toys, [657]
• Treatment of Animals (W. C.), [545]
• Tricks in the Wine Trade, [637]
• Trip on Lake Nyassa, [428]
• Turkestan, a Journey in, [72]
• Tweedside Reminiscence (W. C.), [129]
• —— Tradition, a (W. C.), [337]
• Twelfth Rig, the, [289], [316], [327]
• Tyndall (Professor) on the Spread of Disease, [560]
• Tyrolese Catastrophe, [552]
• Underground Jerusalem, [182]
• Unsuspected Ways of Earning a Livelihood, [446]
• Using up Waste Substances, [816]
• Vagrant Children, Italian, [614]
• Vancouver Island, Sketches in, [680]
• 'Village Home,' a, [433]
• Visit to Amazonia, [501]
• Vital Force, [293]
• Voice, Curiosities of the, [471]
• Volunteers, Royal Naval, [566]
• Voyaging Round the World, [304]
• Walk Across Africa, [214]
• Walter Scott, Sir, and his Dogs (W. C.), [273]
• War and Telegraphy, [737]
• Waste of Life, On, [173]
• Wasted Existence, a (W. C.), [17]
• Watchmaking by Machinery, [92]
• Water Pollution (W. C.), [513]
• Weaving-schools, [583]
• Welsh Coal-mine, Story of a, [526]
• Window Willie (W. C.), [337]
• Wine Trade, Tricks in the, [637]
• Wits and Witticisms, [6]
• Wonderful Railways, Three, [246]
• Wooden Leg, the (W. C.), [81]
• Word on Rich Folks, a, [625]
• Wrestlers, Japanese, [669]
• Young Nobles, Hint to, [592]
• —— Women, Advice to, [192]
• Youthful Prodigies, [577]